Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film: Crossroads Visions

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This book
brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism
as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and
psychological suffering in the present and recent past. The works privilege
sensation, movement, and emotion-rather than identity-as the core elements of
existential experience. However, the works also problematize notions of
intersubjectivity, confronting ideals of affective immersion and cultural
nomadism with the concrete contexts that shape particular lives and social
formations. This confrontation underlies a series of ‘crossroads’, or
productive engagements, that guide the book’s five main chapters: locally
rooted identity and global cultural circuits; historical contexts and universal
modes of being; personal authenticity and consumer culture; migration and
cultural identity; Spain’s historical underdevelopment and impending future
crises. All of these issues make affective connection and attachment the
greatest existential challenge facing individuals and collectives in the contemporary world, both in Spain and elsewhere.